Cale Ramaker's Blog

From a poltician or government worker, heck no they all lie.

Congress is right to be skeptical about the bad bill of goods the Bush administration is pushing for a Wall Street bailout. And it had better ask questions aplenty and push back. America can't afford to give Paulson a blank check with no conditions, no oversight and no accountability, which is what Section 8 of Bush's bill demands. Such carte blanche would not only be a loss of taxpayer money, but the replacement of rule of law, with constitutional checks and balances, with lawlessness. "Responsibility" and "accountability" used to be planks of the Republican platform, but now W is demanding no accountability to rescue those who were irresponsible while lending foolishly, investing riskily and unpatriotically shipping jobs overseas, all out of unbridled greed. Gee, I guess unchecked deregulation wasn't such a good idea after all -- duh. It seems there's no money around for welfare for the genuinely poor, but for white-collar corporate welfare, there's plenty of taxpayer cash all of the sudden -- and Bush expects a rush delivery in a week. Give us a break!

There GREED cause this, let them give back some of the money they stole and bail themselves out...No body helps me when I screw up....

Noooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

VIDEO - BAILOUT is a RIP-OFF

This was included in the proposal Bush dreamed up:
"Sec. 8. Review.
Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are
non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed
by any court of law or any administrative agency."

That's one HUGE "get out of jail free" card !!
It says Paulson can do whatever he wants and
NO ONE can question it.

They say they have no idea of the worth of the properties
they want to buy with our tax payer dollars, which
means if they ever get a return on these properties, they won't
know how much should be credited back to us (tax payers) either,
AND that no one can question it.

Now really... How stupid do they think we are ???

Sec 8 Review Sec 8 Review Sec 8 Review . OK we get it it. We get it. In how many threads are we going to get the same links and diatribe? Post an original thought, if you have any- puleeeze.

I was (see other posts) pretty much against the entire bailout concept, too, but am beginning to reconsider.........

I do agree with one of sensiblejoe's points, though. The Republicans seem to have all but abandoned any sense of accountability.

I AM NOT FOR THE BAIL OUT. IF WE ARE GOING TO INVEST THAT MUCH MONEY WE SHOULD NOT INVEST FROM THE TOP DOWN BUT FROM THE BOTTOM UP. THE GREED THAT CAUSED THIS PROBLEM IS STILL THERE AND PUTTING MORE MONEY INTO A PROBLEM NEVER HAS WORKED FOR ME. FIRST I SOLVE THE PROBLEM. I SAY GIVE THAT MONEY TO THE HARD WORKING AMERICANS TO RESTORE OUR BADLY NEEDED INFRASTRUCTURES AND SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF OUR OIL DEPENDENCY, OR HOW ABOUT THE ILLEAGLE'S GET THEM BACK TO THEIR COUNTRYS THAT WOULD OPEN UP JOBS FOR AMERICANS. I KNOW WE AMERICANS WOULD HAVE JOBS AND WE WOULD SPEND THE MONEY WISELY BACK INTO OUR ECONOMY.